Kolleg
[kɔˈleːk]
The verdict
“Kolleg” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #23,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,200
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lehrveranstaltung an einer Hochschule
Corpus desk
Index DE-kolleg · Kolleg · German
Kolleg · rank #23,200 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,200
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kleiden
Nearest frequency peer: kleiden (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Kolleg“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kenntnissen
Kenntnissen
76,804 corpus weight
- KH
KH
76,803 corpus weight
- kleiden
kleiden
76,802 corpus weight
- Kolleg
Kolleg
76,801 corpus weight
- kommerziell
kommerziell
76,800 corpus weight
- Konturen
Konturen
76,799 corpus weight
What this shows „Kolleg“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kolleg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔˈleːk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kolleg“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Kolleg (IPA [kɔˈleːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,200 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kolleg, with forms such as "kkolleg", "kloleg", and "koleg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Kölner", "Koller", "Kollege", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kolleg, spelled K-O-L-L-E-G.
Definition
- 1Lehrveranstaltung an einer Hochschule
- 2Institution zwecks Unterrichtung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kolleg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Um fünf Uhr nachmittags, als das Kolleg über die Relativitätstheorie eröffnet werden sollte, lasen alle die Absage.“
„In Erfurt, einer der renommiertesten Universitätsstädte des Reichs, kam es in der aufgeheizten Stimmung des ›tollen Jahrs‹ bei einem Kirchweihfest zu bürgerkriegsähnlichen Kämpfen zwischen Studenten und Stadtbürgern und zur Erstürmung eines Kollegs durch städtische Söldner.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkolleg
- kloleg
- koleg
- kolelg
- kollegg
- kollge
- oklleg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kolleg - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kolleg", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).